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Welcome to the Florida Council of Churches web site ... Promoting Unity ... Celebrating Diversity!

Welcome to the Florida Council of Churches web site ... Promoting Unity ... Celebrating Diversity!

The website is currently undergoing major revision, so please "pardon our dust."

The Florida Council is dedicated to manifesting the unity which Christ has given the Church toward solidarity with all of humanity. Early in recorded history, God calls Abaham to become a blessing for all families upon the earth. The Apostle Paul says that Christ dies once for all. Peter declares that all who are just are acceptable to God. Jesus prays that his discples might be one so that the world may believe that God sent him. He teaches us even as the Hebrew scriptures do that we are to love God with all of our heart, mind, soul and will, and each other as we do ourselves.

The unity of faithful Christians and the well-being of the human race go together. The Florida Council of Churches seeks both one and the other -- to the glory of God and the honor of Christ Jesus.

2008 Annual Retreat

College of Judicatory Leaders Retreat

The annual retreat for Florida church leaders will be on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 26-27, 2008, noon-noon, at Dayspring Episcopal Conference Center, Parrish, Florida. The retreat will feature Tyler Edgar, Associate Director of the NCCCUSA Eco-Justice Program and Brigitte Gynther of Interfaith Action. Ms. Edgar will introduce a "Congregations Going Green" program. Ms. Gynther, along with Immokalee workers, will update us on farmworker issues. The retreat will also provide ample opportunity for leaders to interact informally with one another. Download the registration brochure here.

Muslim Scholars Make Historic Overture

In an open letter published in the Washington Post on Oct. 12, 138 leading Muslim scholars and religious leaders petitioned the Christian heads of communions and churches to dialogue together on the Two Greatest Commandments. The Royal Academy of Jordan organized the Muslim leaders in this effort. This extraordinary, 29 page letter was made public as the Islamic religious observance of Ramadan concluded. Read the letter here.